Business white paper | HP and Bentley MicroStation V8i (SELECTseries3) HP recommends Windows.

Business white paper

HP and Bentley MicroStation V8i (SELECTseries3)

Business white paper | HP and Bentley MicroStation V8i (SELECTseries3) HP recommends Windows.

Table of contents

3 Introduction

3 What type of application is MicroStation V8i (SELECTseries3)?

4 How does the HP Workstation family (HP Z1 G2, HP Z230, HP Z420, HP Z620, HP Z820 and HP ZBook) provide ultimate MicroStation performance?

5 What MicroStation V8i (SELECTseries3) CPU Rating did HP measure?

5 What MicroStation V8i (SELECTseries3) I/O Rating did HP measure?

6 What MicroStation V8i (SELECTseries3) Graphics Rating did HP measure?

6 How to manage your Workstation for MicroStation

7 HP MicroStation recommendations for running MicroStation V8i (SELECTseries3)

8 Tips for running Bentley MicroStation V8i (SELECTseries3)

9 Notes

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Introduction

The purpose of this document is to provide information that will aid in selection of HP Workstations for running Bentley MicroStation V8i (SELECTseries3). A performance study was completed with a MicroStation V8i (SELECTseries3) benchmark provided by Bentley. Detailed results are provided for CPU rating, Graphics rating and I/O rating. The benchmark was run on HP Z820, HP Z230 and HP Z1 G2 Workstations running Windows 7 Professional 64-bit.* Recommended configurations are provided for the HP Workstations. Tips are also provided for running the solutions at ultimate performance.

What type of application is MicroStation V8i (SELECTseries3)?

MicroStation is an information modeling environment explicitly for the architecture, engineering, construction, and operation of all infrastructure types. The solution provides immersive interaction with 3D models and 2D designs. The solution enables performance simulation of designs, including lifelike rendering and compelling animations. If your operating system is Windows 7 Professional 64-bit* with a DirectX 11 capable graphics card, then MicroStation (SELECTseries3) will use DirectX 11. For most configurations DirectX 11 display is significantly faster, especially for edges, transparency, and shadows. MicroStation is a 32-bit application. Visualization uses the Luxology rendering engine (64-bit application on 64-bit operating system) for lifelike rendering. The rendering engine runs in parallel and can utilize all existing processor cores.

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How does the HP Workstation family (HP Z1 G2, HP Z230, HP Z420, HP Z620, HP Z820 and ZBook) provide ultimate MicroStation performance?

• Compute performance

− HP Z420, HP Z620 and HP Z820 Workstations with Windows 7 Professional 64-bit* utilize the Intel® Xeon® processor E5-XXXXv2 Series1 and the Intel® C602 chipset.

− HP Z230 Workstations with Windows 7 Professional 64-bit* utilize the Intel® Xeon® processor E3-XXXXv3 family or Intel® Core™ i3/i5/i7-XXXX Series1 and the Intel® C216 chipset.

− HP Z1 G2 Workstation with Windows 7 Professional 64-bit* utilizes the Intel® Xeon® processor E3-XXXXv3 Series or Intel® Core™ i3/i5-XXXX Series1 and the Intel® C206 chipset.

− HP ZBook 15 and HP ZBook 17 Mobile Workstations with Windows 7 Professional 64-bit* utilize the Intel® Core™ i5/i7 processor family and the Intel® QM87 chipset.

− HP ZBook 14 Mobile Workstation with Windows 7 Professional 64-bit* utilizes the Intel® Core™ i5/i7 processor family and the chipset is integrated.

• Memory bandwidth and latency. The HP Z620 and HP Z820 with Windows 7 Professional 64-bit have Dual QPI links in parallel with up to 8 GT/s.

• Memory speed on the HP Z1 G2, HP Z230 and ZBook Mobile Workstations with Windows 7 Professional 64-bit* is 1600 MHz.

• Memory speed on the HP Z420, Z620 and Z820 Workstations with Windows 7 Professional 64-bit is 1866 MHz.

• Memory design with either 2 or 4 channels per processor

− HP Z1 G2 and HP Z230 support unbuffered DIMMs and non-ECC unbuffered DIMMs

− 4 DIMM sockets, 2 channels, 2 DIMMs per channel, up to 32 GB

− HP Z420 supports unbuffered DIMMs (UDIMM)

− 8 DIMM sockets, 4 channels, 2 DIMMs per channel, up to 64 GB

− HP Z620 supports unbuffered DIMMs (UDIMM) and registered DIMMs (RDIMM)

− 12 DIMM sockets, 4 channels, up to 96 GB − 2 DIMMs per channel – CPU0 – 8 sockets − 1 DIMM per channel – CPU1 – 4 sockets

− HP Z820 supports unbuffered DIMMs (UDIMM), registered DIMMs (RDIMM) and load-reduced DIMMs 1333 MHz (LRDIMM)

− Mixing UDIMM / RDIMM / LRDIMM is not permitted − 16 DIMM sockets, 4 channels, up to 512 GB − 2 DIMMs per channel – CPU0 – 8 sockets − 2 DIMMs per channel – CPU1 – 8 sockets

− HP ZBook 14 Mobile Workstation support DDR3 SDRAM, 1600 MHz

− Dual-core processors support 2 memory slots, 2 channels, up to 16 GB

− HP ZBook 15 and ZBook 17 Mobile Workstations support DDR3 SDRAM, 1600 MHz

− Dual-core processors support 2 memory slots, 2 channels, up to 16 GB − Quad-core processors support 4 memory slots, 2 channels, 2 DIMMs per channel,

up to 32 GB

• Storage I/O performance

− PCI-Express 3.0

− 3 Gb/s and 6 Gb/s SATA and 6 Gb/s SAS ports

− 6 Gb/s hard drives (HDD) and 6 Gb/s solid state drives (SSD)

− Storage volumes can be configured with RAID for speed and resilience

− USB 3.0 ports

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What MicroStation V8i (SELECTseries3) CPU Rating did HP measure?

What MicroStation V8i (SELECTseries3) I/O Rating did HP measure?

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0CPU rating

146

87

68

Z820 Windows 7 Professional 64-bit 128 GB E5-2687w 3.1/3.8 32T SSD Quadro K2000

Z220 CMT Windows 7 Professional 64-bit 8 GB E3-1245v2 3.4/3.8 8T SSD Quadro K2000

Z220 SFF Windows 7 Professional 64-bit 8 GB E3-1225v2 3.2/3.6 4T SRT FirePro™ V3900

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0Storage I/O ratings

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1694

2215

Z220 CMT

Windows 7 Professional 64-bit

8 GB E3-1245v2 3.4/3.8 8T

SSD

FirePro™ W7000

Z1

Windows 7 Professional 64-bit

16 GB E3-1245v2 3.4/3.8 8T

HDD 7200

Quadro K4000M

Z220 SFF

Windows 7 Professional 64-bit

8 GB E3-1225v2 3.2/3.6 4T

SRT

FirePro™ V3900

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What MicroStation V8i (SELECTseries3) Graphics Rating did HP measure?

How to manage your Workstation for MicroStation

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FirePro™ W7000 9.3.3.1

FirePro™ V3900 9.3.3.1

Quadro K600 310.90

Quadro K2000 310.90

Quadro K4000 310.90

Intel® P40000 2618

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HP MicroStation recommendations for running MicroStation V8i (SELECTseries3)

• HP Workstation recommendations for running MicroStation V8i (SELECTseries3)

− 2D Design Drafting - HP Z230 with Windows 7 Professional 64-bit,* Intel® Xeon® E3-1245v3 4-core 3.4/3.8 tb,1,2,3 16 GB memory,4,5 256 GB SATA SSD,6,7 NVIDIA Quadro K600 or AMD FireProTM V3900

− 3D Design Modeling - HP Z230 with Windows 7 Professional 64-bit,* Intel® Xeon® E3-1280v3 4-core 3.6/4.0 tb,1,2,3 16 GB memory, 4,5 512 GB SATA SSD,6,7 NVIDIA Quadro K2000 or AMD FireProTM W7000

− Advanced Design Visualization Rendering – HP Z620 with Windows 7 Professional 64-bit,* 2x Intel® Xeon® E5-2690v2 10-core 3.0/3.6 tb,1,2,3 32 GB memory,4 512 GB SATA SSD,6,7 NVIDIA Quadro K2000 or AMD FirePro™ W7000

− Education - HP Z1 G2 with Windows 7 Professional 64-bit,* Intel® Xeon® E3-1245v3 4-core 3.4/3.8 tb,1,2,3 16 GB memory, 4,5 512 GB SATA SSD,6,7 NVIDIA Quadro K2100M or Intel® HD Graphics P4600

− Construction/Field – HP ZBook 14 with Windows 7 Professional 64-bit,* Intel® Core™ i7-4600U 2-core 2.1/3.3 tb,1,2,3 8 GB memory, 4 256 GB SATA SSD,6,7 AMD FireProTM M4100

− Mobile Design – HP ZBook 15 with Windows 7 Professional 64-bit,* Intel® Core™ i7-4600M 4-core 2.9/3.6 tb,1,2,3 16 GB memory, 4 256 GB SATA SSD,6,7 NVIDIA Quadro K1100M

• Memory sizing/selection is critical. For best performance, use same total memory size on each channel. Use same total size on each CPU.

• Windows 7 Professional 64-bit* Service Pack 1. 32-bit programs like MicroStation will have full 4 GB memory access and beyond on Windows 64-bit.

• Windows 7 Professional 64-bit* uses physical memory for dynamic buffer cache when available. The buffer cache prevents Disk I/O transactions. Memory is much faster than disk I/O. Additional memory for the OS is necessary.

• HP Workstations have 6 Gb/s and 3 Gb/s disk I/O ports. The 6 Gb/s I/O ports are recommended for 6 Gb/s devices.

• 3 Gb/s devices will negotiate 3 Gb/s protocol when plugged into 6 Gb/s ports.

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Tips for running Bentley MicroStation V8i (SELECTseries3)

communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/w/microstation__wiki/selectsupport-technotes-and-faqs.aspx

• Operating System

Operating System / Setting Default Recommend

Windows 7 Professional 64-bit* Service Pack 1

Control Panel/Power Options Balanced High Performance

• System BIOS

BIOS Setting Default Recommend

Power/OS Power Management/Runtime Power Management

Enable Enable

Power/OS Power Management/Idle Power Savings Extended Normal

Power/OS Power Management/Turbo Mode Enable Enable

Advanced/Device Options/Hyper-Threading Enable Enable

Advanced/Bus Options/NUMA (HP Z620 and HP Z820 Dual processor)

Enable Enable

HP Performance Advisor can be used to install graphics drivers, select BIOS settings and help characterize MicroStation memory usage. Download from hp.com/go/hpperformanceadvisor

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Notes

* Not all features are available in all editions of Windows 7. Systems may require upgraded and/or separately purchased hardware to take full advantage of Windows 7 functionality. See microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/ for details.

1. Multi-Core technologies are designed to improve performance of multithreaded software products and hardware-aware multitasking operating systems and may require appropriate operating system software for full benefits. Not all customers or software applications will necessarily benefit from use of these technologies.

2. 64-bit computing on Intel architecture requires a computer system with a processor, chipset, BIOS, operating system, device drivers, and applications enabled for Intel® 64 architecture. Processors will not operate (including 32-bit operation) without an Intel 64 architecture-enabled BIOS. Performance will vary depending on your hardware and software configurations. See intel.com/info/em64t for more information.

3. Intel’s numbering is not a measurement of higher performance.

4. Each processor supports up to 2 channels (HP Z230 CMT/HP Z230 SFF) or 4 channels (HP Z420/ HP Z620/HP Z820) of DDR3 memory. To realize full performance at least 1 DIMM must be inserted into each channel. To get full 8 channel support, 2 processors MUST be installed.

5. Intel® Xeon® E3 and Intel® Core™ i3 processors can support either ECC or non-ECC memory.

6. SATA hardware RAID is not supported on Linux systems. The Linux kernel, with built-in software RAID, provides excellent functionality and performance. It is a good alternative to hardware-based RAID. Please visit h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c00060684/c00060684.pdf for RAID capabilities with Linux. HP Z200 does not support RAID 10 because of drive bay limitation.

7. For hard drives, 1 GB = 1 billion bytes; TB = 1 trillion bytes. Actual formatted capacity is less. Up to 20 GB of hard drive (or system disk) is reserved for system recovery software for Windows 7.